Lakeside Capital Partners third New Year’s reception took place on January 9^th 2025 on the roof of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen celebrating 20^th year anniversary of entrepreneurship of Ali Keles the Founder and Managing Partner of Lakeside Capital Partners. A yearly tradition at this venue on each 2^nd Thursday of every new year is continuing.

With this get together Lakeside Capital Partner’s management wishes to bring together its network of shareholders, partners, advisors and clients. Not merely for business but moreover to bring them together with the artist community which whom a connection in the heart is in place.

Introduction

A modern and contemporary art collection, founded in 2015 by Lakeside Capital Partners, with local presence exhibited at “Villa Lakeside”, affiliated locations and Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen.

Diversity and inclusion are valuable sources of inspiration for the Lakeside Collection, which consists of over 120 artworks created by local and international artists from 1946 until today.

Lakeside Collection believes in the power of art and conveys inspiration to its visitors. The collection exhibits many different art forms ranging from video art, sculptures, paintings, filmography, photography to print.

In 2019 Lakeside Collection became an official member of the Netherlands Association of Corporate Art Collections. For more information: www.vbcn.nl

Floris Kappelle
Interviewer Tableau Fine Arts Magazine

Title
From collection to connection

Parts of the interview:

By setting up two artist-in-residencies, the passionate collector Ali Keles – Founder of the Lakeside Collection and Chairman of the Netherlands Association of Corporate Art Collections - added a new impulse to collecting. At two unique locations he offers artists a temporary home to fully concentrate on research, new work and preparation for exhibitions.

What does this success do with you?

Caja Boogers: I put my full attention and all my time in my work. I already did that at the academy. It is an independent route with long days. Those are sacrifices I like to make. And apparently, I am om the right track given the confirmation I am getting. Then you feel connection and interest. By the way that does not reduce my doubts when I am solely standing in front of my work.

Tomáš Libertíny: Ali became direct captivated by the magical concept with the bees and my love for literature that is reflected in my work. We became friends and he started purchasing my work. In sixteen years, however, I had only been able to make twenty works and we wondered how there could be more. Ali then suggested the idea for a natural workshop on the park-like grounds of the Lakeside Collection: a true bee home. A beekeeper was hired and the rest is history.

The Founder of Lakeside Collection Ali Keles sees his collaboration with Libertíny as a logical corollary of the landscape at its headquarters. Also from the circular thought the bees are important.

Ali Keles: This is the third season and he has already produced eighteen works this year. This is progress and it fits well within our philosophy of sustainability. The other residency is related to our art prize which has now existed for four years. That prize is an encouragement for young artists and consists of a stipendium, a workplace for ten months and an exhibition in our compartment in the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen.

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Museum Kranenburgh and Lakeside Collection collaborate on preparing a solo exhibition with artworks made by bees with Tomáš Libertíny.

In 2025 the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands of renowned artist Tomáš Libertíny will be openend in Museum Kranenburgh by director Adriana Gonzalez Hulshof. Artworks made by bees partly created in the Lakeside Bee Farm will be exhibited in the museum.

In collaboration with artist Tomáš Libertíny, Lakeside Bee Farm has been constructed at the premises of Lakeside Capital Partners’ headquarters in Rotterdam.

By starting the Lakeside Bee Farm, a special project has been realized considering the importance of maintaining and growing the worldwide population of bees, which are recently suffered through colony collapse disorder. Lakeside Capital Partners’ management highly values and aims to contribute to circular economy, the environment, sustainability and arts & culture. The Latter, is being supported via the Lakeside Collection and Keles Foundation.

The long term relationship between the artist, Tomáš Libertíny and Lakeside Capital Partners’ Managing Partner, Ali Keles, created a fruitful foundation for this longterm partnership, which enables the artist to sculpture in collaboration with bees at the Lakeside Bee Farm in Rotterdam. Together with the engagement of a renowned beekeeper, the Lakeside Bee Farm’s colonies, which consist of approximately 300.000 bees, are being maintained.

Currently living and working in Rotterdam, through his art, Tomáš Libertíny continually explores the beauty and intelligence of nature as well as probing into the existential questions of the human mind.

Loes van Roozendaal (HKU) has been awarded the Lakeside Collection Award 2024. The selection was amongst 24 talented artists selected for the Best of Graduates 2024 by the Ron Mandos Young Blood Foundation.

Motivation by the jury (Adriana Gonzalez Hulshof, Lieven Hendriks, Tomas Libertiny, Annemarie van der Hoeven and Ali Keles) of Lakeside Collection Award 2024:

“The jury of the Lakeside Collection Award sees Loes van Rozendaal as a great painting talent who is firmly committed to a theme. Her work is technically very complicated and skilled, and at the same time adventurous because of the convincing painterly research she conducts into the translation of light and space, in which she tries to capture the passage of time within painting. She paints with dedication and expresses that strongly on canvas.

In her presentation at the Best of Graduates 2024 we see the transparency of glass translated into the richness of color. Every time you take a different position in relation to the painting, the works seem to change.

Loes sees herself as an artist and is willing to work hard and show commitment. Even before she started at the art academy, she was already aware of her need to become an artist, for which she completed a residency in Spain. She is willing to do long-term research and practice on canvas. She is ambitious and eager to learn and speaks beautifully and clearly about the origins and development of her work, which resulted in this graduation presentation. Her energetic and vital attitude during the online presence was striking and the jury thinks she is completely at home at the Lakeside Collection artist-in-residency in the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen.

The other nominees of whom most of them also works have been acquired for the Lakeside Collection are: Jens Buis, Mayte Breed, Amber Schaafsma and Michal Kucharski.”

Loes van Roozendaal (1996), ‘Untitled (2)’ 2024 art work, acrylic and oil on canvas, winner of the Lakeside Collection Award 2024, painted during graduation and exhibited at the Best of Graduates 2024 by Ron Mandos Young Blood Foundation, has become part of the Lakeside Collection.

Lakeside Capital Partners second New Year’s reception took place on January 11^th 2024 on the roof of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen celebrating Tandheelkunde Groep Nederland’s 10^th year anniversary. A yearly tradition at this venue on each 2^nd Thursday of every new year is continuing.

With this get together Lakeside Capital Partner’s management wishes to bring together its network of shareholders, partners, advisors and clients. Not merely for business but moreover to bring them together with the artist community which whom a connection in the heart is in place.

Introduction

A modern and contemporary art collection, founded in 2015 by Lakeside Capital Partners, with local presence exhibited at “Villa Lakeside”, affiliated locations and Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen.

Diversity and inclusion are valuable sources of inspiration for the Lakeside Collection, which consists of over 120 artworks created by local and international artists from 1946 until today.

Lakeside Collection believes in the power of art and conveys inspiration to its visitors. The collection exhibits many different art forms ranging from video art, sculptures, paintings, filmography, photography to print.

In 2019 Lakeside Collection became an official member of the Netherlands Association of Corporate Art Collections. For more information: www.vbcn.nl

Jiyan Düyü’s new video artwork “Heaven must be like this” has been shown during the ‘Harvest 2023’ exhibition in the compartment of the Lakeside Collection in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen.

Jiyan Düyü (1995) graduated from the Audio-Visual department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2022. With her video installation and graduation film “Birds Fly Back” she won the Lakeside Collection Award and the Wildcard of the Dutch Film Fund. Her new work “Heaven must be like this was created by combining the two awards.”

In “Heaven must be like this” Leonel, Cachupa and Cucada share life with each other. The three friends talk about cars, their children and the loss of their parents.

In 2021 the Lakeside Collection Award has been founded and for the first three years the collection is committed to presenting the award to one of the participants of the Best of Graduates exhibition, organized annually by Galerie Ron Mandos and supported by the Ron Mandos Young Blood Foundation. Both the gallery and the foundation are admired for supporting young artists unconditionally. The Best of Graduates is an exhibition of the graduation work of the most talented students of accredited Photography and Fine Arts courses of the Dutch art academies of each year.

Yearly the winner of the Lakeside Collection Award will be granted an artist-in-residence program in the private compartment of the Lakeside Collection in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, including financial support of EUR 5.000,- and guidance during this period. With this award, the Lakeside Collection aims to support and provide visibility for young, local and contemporary artists. Creating a long term relationship with the artists is an important anchor of the program.

Caja Boogers (graduate of HKU, Utrecht) has been awarded the third Lakeside Collection Award. The selection was amongst 25 talented artists selected for the Best of Graduates 2023 by the Ron Mandos Young Blood Foundation.

Motivation by the jury (Sanne ten Brink, Tomas Libertiny, Annemarie van der Hoeven and Ali Keles) of Lakeside Collection Award 2023:

“The jury is of the opinion that Caja's work is both aesthetically and conceptually convincing. His works are direct, yet offer the viewer the opportunity to interpret what he sees. He paints compellingly. His subjects vary from simple photographic copies to almost abstract sculptural panels. A subject such as frozen waters, on which visible signs of ice skaters who have entered the ice, give an almost photo-realistic image, but at the same time he manages to convert it into an almost abstract natural landscape. His style is daring.

Caja chooses the right scales for his paintings and is not afraid to make mistakes. The cutting style of drawing (as we also see with Marloes Roeper and Sam Werkhoven) is pleasant, confident and without hesitation. This non-hesitation reminds the jury of the pure calligraphic Zen approach when an empty state of mind is needed for the mark to "make itself". Caja knows how to influence the viewer's perception by making small interventions in the canvas and challenging the viewer to look closely; what is paint and what is canvas?

The jury was deeply impressed by the concept and the surprising presentation of the work. According to the jury, Caja has a lot of potential, not only on the scale on which he works now, but also on a more monumental scale. His mastery of the craft of painting, sense of theme expressed in his works with balanced depth, light, color and layering make him a promise for the future. The jury is therefore very curious about the further development of Caja.

The other nominees of whom also works have been acquired for the Lakeside Collection are: Jemima de Jonge and Sam Werkhoven.

Caja Boogers (2001), ‘Partition #5’ 2023 art work, oil and paste on linen, became a part of the Lakeside Collection after winning the Lakeside Collection Award 2023

Ali Keles, together with Ritchy Drost and Cyanne Toebes Moe-Tjon, has been appointed as a member of the Supervisory Board of the Balie as of June 2023. After 8 years, Bercan Günel stepped down as a member of the Supervisory Board. The other current members of the Supervisory Board are Mirjam van Praag (chairman), Peter Mensing and Doreen Boonekamp.

Keles: “Being part of and contributing from the Supervisory Board to an institute like De Balie that is committed to art, culture and social debate is a great honor for me.”

During the general meeting of the Netherlands Association of Corporate Art Collections (VBCN) on May 10^th 2023, Ali Keles took office as the new chairman. He succeeds Anne Clement van Vugt, who has been chairman since 2020 and whose term of office expired this year.

Ali Keles (1983) is an investor and founder of Lakeside Capital Partners, a financial services and investment group based in the Netherlands. In addition, he collects contemporary art that is housed in the Lakeside Collection, and thus joined the VBCN in 2019. He has been a board member of the VBCN since 2021.

With Keles as the new chairman, the VBCN is committed to further professionalizing the services it provides to its members. In addition, an important spearhead will be intensifying cooperation with the Dutch cultural and museum sector, but also between the affiliated corporate collections.

Keles strongly cares about the long-term commitment of the corporate collections and wants to embed this by developing a widely supported Charter for Art & Culture. Increasing the sense of responsibility of companies and (semi) public institutions to invest in the Dutch art and culture sector is evident to him.

In his opening speech, Keles emphasized: “Companies and (semi) public institutions that have committed themselves to the VBCN and that have all built up treasures of art collections over the years are an important part of the Dutch art sector. This makes them a great support for the arts and their creators. Recent research by the UvA has shown that the VBCN members collectively conserve more than 100,000 works of art and account for almost a quarter of all art purchases in the Netherlands.”

The VBCN is very pleased with the appointment of Keles and at the same time thanks Anne Clement van Vugt – senior advisor and art coordinator at Erasmus University Rotterdam – for her chairmanship. Under her inspired leadership, the VBCN membership grew, the association's memory was recorded, the mission and vision updated, the anniversary publication VBCN VIEW was realized and the association presented the fourth edition of the VBCN OPEN curator's prize. About the VBCN The Dutch Association of Corporate Collections (VBCN) is an independent non-profit knowledge network for Dutch companies and (semi) public institutions with an art collection. The members bring a large and diverse audience into contact with art and create new connections between art and society. This makes the VBCN a distinctive player in the cultural field.